Brian Wood

Brian Wood works with multiple media in New York City. His paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are exhibited internationally and are held in private and public collections.

Wood is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the Tampa Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa; the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Concordia Art Gallery in Montreal; the Museum of Modern Art in Prague; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne; and many others.

Brian Wood's awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for printmaking and photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, a number of Canada Council Grants, and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He currently teaches at Hunter College in New York and previously taught at Yale University.

Born on the prairies of northern Saskatchewan, Wood's early imaginative experience was formed in harsh land, severe weather, and the life and death cycles of animals, crops and wilderness. Wood's childhood on the farm, his absorption in both nature and books and his later studies in math and science have combined with his deep interest in spiritual life to form the issues and obsessions in his work.